Catherine (Cate Crowley) and Miriam Baigorri of Teachers College, Columbia University, present Spanish langauge modules on the identification and treatment of speech impairment due to cleft palate. Find the description in Spanish, followed by English, below.
Category: Assessment and Evaluation
Evaluation is the process of identifying the presence of a disability and eligibility for special education and related services. Assessment is planning interventions, including IEPs and the extent of services, based on the strengths and needs of an individual with a disability.
Terapia del Habla para Paladar Hendido 1.2: Introducción / Cleft Palate Speech Therapy: Introduction
Esta parte describe los efectos del paladar hendido/ fisura palatina en la producción de los sonidos y el habla. El desarrollo y aprendizaje normal de los sonidos del habla está presentado. Luego hay un análisis de la influencia del paladar hendido/ fisura palatina en la producción de cada sonido.
Dynamic Assessment: How Does it Work in the Real World of Preschool Evaluations?
In a disability evaluation, we ask a child to point “to the triangle” or “to the author” as part of test developed to identify disorder. An evaluator who uses this kind of test to identify disability must assume that all children being evaluated have had similar exposure to “triangle” and “author” including similar family, cultural, and educational experiences. It follows then, that if a child cannot identify “triangle” or “author” it is because that child has some kind of learning problem. But what if a child does not have a disability but simply did not have the same exposure to “triangle” or books as the majority of children his age? Dynamic assessment offers evaluators an approach to see whether a child can acquire new linguistic information from the environment. Here are some clinicians examples of how to translate the dynamic assessment research into their own disability evaluations, including some “dynamic” approaches to increase the accuracy of our preschool disability evaluations.
Evaluación Clínica del Habla de Paladar Hendido 2 / Clinical Evaluation of Cleft Palate Speech
Catherine (Cate Crowley) and Miriam Baigorri of Teachers College, Columbia University, present Spanish language modules on the identification and treatment of speech impairment due to cleft palate. Find the description in Spanish, followed by English, below.
Grammar Fundamentals for Pluralistic Society: Playlist
Find the entire playlist of modules contained within this module series below. Read More
Common Core: Aligning IEP Goals to the CCSS: Case Study- Joey
AligningtheIEPtoCommonCoreStateStandardsCaseStudyJoey.pdf
This case study is part of the Aligning IEP goals with the Common Core State Standards series. In this case study you will be asked to (1) Choose the standard (2) “Unpack” the standard and break it into its component parts (3) Analyze the subskills (4)Develop the goals (5) Create short-term objectives for planning and benchmarks for Joey, a 6 year old of Puerto Rican descent. Read More
Test Review: CELF-5
The Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF-5) was designed to assess a student’s language and communication skills in a variety of contexts, determine the presence of a language disorder, describe the nature of the language disorder, and plan for intervention or treatment.
Relevant Research: Factors That Influence Fast Mapping in Children Exposed to Spanish and English
The current study asked whether bilingual children would show less advantage in fast-mapping high-probability words as a result of interference from the second language (in this case Spanish) when compared to monolingual (English) children.
